Quotes About Challenge

I was very similar at 19. I wanted something to happen in life, I wanted a bit more. I wanted to find someone who could challenge my ideas. So I definitely tapped into that.

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.

On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

I think people who don't have conflict in their lives are just trying to please people and not really living life to the fullest.

Spiritual life and secure life do not go together; to save oneself on must struggle and take risks.

Having a life is easy. Having a career is hard to come by.

When life gives you lemons, throw them back.

Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway.

If we each get on a treadmill right now, one of two things is going to happen... either you're going to get off first or I am going to die. Period.

A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

All of life is the exercise of risk.

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.

A truley heroic way of life lies in squarely confronting and courageously overcoming the pounding vicissitudes that life always throws in our paths

At the midpoint on the journey of life, I found myself in a dark forest, for the clear path was lost.

I think the two most difficult things to deal with in life are failure and success

It would be very easy for us to do a collection that everybody would like and not criticize. But criticism is a part of life. You have to take it.

You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth.

Everything you want in life has teeth.

There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.

For the true student, everything that happens in daily life is a test.

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

No one gets out of the game of life alive. You either die in the bleachers, or on the field. So, you might as well play out on the field, and go for it.

Life's a climb, but the view's great.

Cancer came back into my life twice in order for me to understand something, and I guess I still wasn't getting it. And my husband wasn't getting it, either.